The purpose of this report is to provide a complete overview and final update on the project. This report will provide in detail the scope of the project, what was required, the technical challenges and milestones, budget overview, scheduling and overall conclusions about this project.

This Project has 1 team member:

• Rish Sangar

This final report will provide a complete review of the project’s performance. Overall, the vacuum forming machine was successful. It has achieved a majority of its technical deliverables. The project costs and schedule were relatively under control.

The report consists of the following sections:

• Introduction
• Project Methodology
• Project Management
• Recommendations and Lessons Learned
• Conclusion
• Documents & References

Abstract:

As an overview of what was accomplished, this final report section will provide, detailed drawings and description of the overall project.

The project methodology page will go over all the timelines and milestones that were completed throughout the duration of this project. In addition, how each phase was accomplished and the processes and procedures needed to successfully complete each phase and milestone will be outlined. Initially, I referred to the YouTube video "How to make a large Vacuum Former" by I Like To Make Stuff as a step-by-step guide in how I would accomplish this task. The Project Scope package was delivered, and I got to work on all the drawings and parts needed to come up with a concept of what this machine would look like. After many revisions, problems and scheduling conflicts, I had the final product ready for the final presentation.

The project management page will provide an update on the project schedule and the costs that were required. This was supposed to be tracked using the Earned Value Analysis (EVA) tool on a weekly basis. However, due to miscommunications and misunderstandings, the project started at a later date and a lot of time had to be made up and the project needed to be hustled. However, the costs were well below the budget as per the Cost Performance Index (CPI) but the schedule was not kept on track as per the Schedule Performance Index (SPI).

Next, the recommendations and lessons learned page will outline the overall experience of the procedures that were done and what lessons were learned and how things could have been done differently. Although the machine was built and tested and the project was successful in the end, there were a few mistakes made. The major take-away from this project that I learned is that it is vital to stay on top of the schedule and be organized with the tasks that need to be done.

Finally the Conclusions page will provide an overall assessment of the project's success and the final status of the project.

There will also be a Documents and References section which will list all the files and external resources which were referred to in this report.